Sylvie's POV

It was New Years Eve and we were all on shift. The whole house was going to stay up and watch the countdown and the ball drop. Providing we weren't on a call. It was going to be a great night. That was until I started to feel horrible. We just got back from our last call. I hop out of the passenger side of the ambo. All I wish to do is hide in a dark room. "Go rest I'll restock for us." violet says "thanks" I barely manage to say to her. I head to the only place I know is quite. "Hey what's up? You feeling okay?" Casey asks me as I walk into his quarters holding my hand to my head. I can't even answer him. I'm in so much pain. All I do is go lay down on his bunk. He must sense something is seriously wrong because he's at my side in seconds. "Hey you got one of your migraines?" He quietly asks me as he rubs my back. "yeah" I say trying not to cry with how much pain I'm in. "I will take 61 out of service." He says. "no I'll be okay. We need to keep ambo in with this shortage." I say on the verge of tears. "Fine, ambo stays in, but not you. I'll transfer kidd over to ambo. I can be a man down." He says quietly. I'm thankful he's telling me to not work and to just rest. I feel like I can puke at any moment. "Stay here I'll go get you an ice pack from the freezer" he says getting up from the bunk. The room is spinning. I just wish it would stop.

Casey's POV

I see Sylvie walk into my quarters with her hand pressed to her head. She looks miserable. She can barely talk without crying. She's got one of her migraines again. I'm at her side in seconds rubbing her back and telling her to just rest. "Stay here I'll go get you an ice pack from the freezer" I tell her as I get up from the bunk. On my way to the common room I look for Stella. I find her in the common room sitting at the table doing some girls on fire work. "Hey Kidd you got a minute?" I ask her. "Yeah Captain what's up?" she says coming over to me. "I need you to help man ambo for the rest of shift." I say. "Oh okay yeah sure. What's going on? Everything okay?" she asks. "Yeah Brett has a major migraine. I wanted to pull Ambo out but she won't let me. I'm good with being a man down. You good with this?" I say. "oh yeah total" she says . "Thanks so much." I say as I grab an ice pack from the freezer. "take care of our girl." Stella says as I walk back to my quarters. I carefully and quietly enter the room. "here you go. Have you taken your meds." I ask her as I hand over the ice pack I got her. "Yeah but I don't think they are helping me at all." She says as she puts on the ice pack over her head. "When can you take more? I ask here. "um I think three hours." She tells me. "Rest up if you need me I'll be right over at my desk." I say as I start to get up. "wait." She says as she grabs my arm. "What is it?" I ask. "Can you rub my back for a bit?" she says. "Sure sweetheart" I say as I sit back down and start rubbing her back. It doesn't take long for her to drift off to sleep. The meds must finally be working. I go back to my desk and work on the giant stack of paper work I have. I just hope that the alarm doesn't go off for a while. I really want her to get some sleep. A little more than an hour later the alarm blares for the whole house. "urrrggggggg " She moans at the sound of the alarm. "Sorry the noise woke you. I'll be back just rest." I say as I lean down and kiss her. "Love you stay safe" she says back to me. "Love you too" I say I as run out to the rig.

Sylvie's POV

After the Alarm went off for the whole house, I couldn't get back to sleep. So I decided to get another ice pack from the freezer. I check my phone and see that I can take more of my meds. Even though I think they aren't helping. My right side of my face is numb and I have no muscle function on that side. Every time I smile the right side just drops. I head to my locker and grab my meds from the top shelf. I pull out one and take a swig of water with it. I then go back to Matt's quarters and try to get some more sleep. I manage to get about another 45 minutes when I start to feel really nausea. I get up and run to the bathroom. I make it just in time as I puke. I was hoping that puking would make me feel better but it didn't. I still felt like my head was being stabbed with a knife and as it was being pulled out it was getting twisted. It got worse with each hurl that I did. I tried to get up but was in so much pain I just sat there on the floor of the bathroom.

Casey's POV

We arrive back from the accident scene. I walk back to my quarters to find it empty. I look around for Sylvie but can't find her anywhere. That is until I walk into the bathroom. I see Sylvie slumped over the toilet puking. "Oh babe" I say rushing to her side. I know she's in trouble when she starts to talk and the right side of her face is not moving that well. "I think we need to get you to the hospital." I say. "Yeah" she manages to say. I lift her up in my arms and carry her to the rig. "what's going on?" Severide asks . "we need to take Sylvie to the hospital she's lost feeling and function of the right side of her face from her migraine. She's not doing well. Can you tell chief we are taking her to med and ask if he can cover truck for me?" I say to him. "Yeah will do buddy no problem." He says as he heads to the chiefs office. Violet gets in the driver's seat while I'm in back with Sylvie. I place her on the stretcher and we head off. It doesn't take us long to get there. Which I'm thankful for. "what do we got?" Maggie asks as we roll the stretcher in. "Wait Casey?" she asks confused. Then she look on the stretcher to see Brett. "oh my gosh what happened?" she asks. "Sylvie ended up with a horrible migraine. She lost all feeling on the right side." I say "Sylvie how's the pain. Scale of 1 to 10 how bad." Rhodes asks. "20" she says to him. " alright Bay 4 let's get you hooked up to start feeling better. Have you taken anything recently for this." Rhodes asks but she's in too much pain to respond. "um she took her migraine meds fioricet one about 7 hours ago and one maybe about an hour ago." I tell him. "that's good to know. Anything else I should know." He asks me. "yeah when we got back from our last call I found her puking. Not sure how long that was going on for." I say "alright thanks Casey." Rhodes says to me. Sylvie starts to moan and I move right next to her taking her hand in mine. "Sylvie I'm going to give you something for the pain and nausea along with some fluids to help you rehydrate. This is gonna make you sleepy" Maggie says.

Sylvie's POV

I get rolled into the ED on the stretcher and get greeted by Maggie and Rhodes. He tries to talk to me and asks me questions about how I'm feeling but I can't answer. I'm in too much pain. I just want this to go away. I want to be back at the firehouse to watch the ball drop with my friends but that doesn't look like it's going to happen. It makes me sad that this is how I have to spend my last day of the year. I moan in pain and Matt is by my side taking my hand in his. "Sylvie I'm going to give you something for the pain and nausea along with some fluids to help you rehydrate. This is gonna make you sleepy." Maggie tells me. "I know the drill." I manage to say between the pain. I look over at Matt as they start the IV in me. I squeeze matt's hand as the IV goes in. You would think that being a paramedic I be okay with needles which I am I just hate the pain I get from them going in. I don't have the best veins. "You should start to feel better soon. I want you to rest. If you need anything just press your call button. I'll come back and check on you in a few hours to see how you are doing" He tells me as he walks out with Maggie. It's about 7 o'clock now. Matt lets go of my hand to get a chair to sit in but I stop him. "Can you please lay with me" she barely manages say. "Sure lights on or off?" he asks me. "Off please." I tell him as a carefully scoot over. He turns off the lights and joins me in the bed. He pulls me close to him careful not to get my IV in the way. I feel the meds start to take effect and I drift off to sleep in his arms. I wake up about 3 hours later. Still not feeling the greatest, I end up puking again. "Sorry" I say to matt who is now pulling my hair back from my face to keep it out of the way. "It's okay babe." He tells me as he takes the kidney shaped bowl from me and places it on the table. He continues to rub my back up as I try to keep things down. "I'm going to call a nurse over" Matt says. "I'll be okay just give me a minute." I say as I start to heave again. "They can give you more meds." He says to me. "I hate hospitals I hate this." I say on the verge of tears. "I know babe but this is where you need to be right now." He says as he leans down to kiss my forehead. Just as we are about to use the call button we see Dr. Rhodes heading our way. "So how are we doing" Rhodes asks as he enters the room. "Not so great I just puked again. But pains down to a 15 instead of 20" I say. "Well that's a step in the right direction." He tells me." I guess it is." I say. "I'll give you more pain and nausea meds. Keep trying to rest as much as possible." Rhodes says to me as he hangs another IV bag. I curl back up in matt's arms. He rubs his hand up and down my back while giving my head a soft kiss. It's now almost 11:50 pm when I look back at the clock. "You up for watching the ball drop?" Matt asks. "Sure" I say curling up closer to him. He turns the TV on and lowers the volume so it's not too loud for me. "What a great way to start the New Year. I wish I was at the firehouse." I say with a sad voice. "Yeah I know sweetheart but I'm happy to start my New Year anywhere you are, whether that be at the firehouse, our place or right here in the hospital. As long as I have you that's all I need." He says kissing me.  

AN: Hey guys. So I got an idea for a one shot last night and decide to write it down. I hope you enjoy it. I will try and write another one in a week or two if I get so inspiration. As always feel free to vote comment and leave suggestions.